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| Drinking window: Drink between 2018 and 2026 (based on 2 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.3 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 6 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by merryberry on 6/27/2020 & rated 89 points: Translucent garnet-tinged magenta. Raspberry, earth, and cola nose. Medium to full bodied, dirty cranberries, black cherries, white pepper, still unresolved tannins, smoke, and a sharp cherry-laced finish. It's young; I should have decanted. Solid for the price. (362 views) | | | Tasted by maxmanx on 5/11/2019: Decanted 1 hour. Drank with a sophisticated wine pal, and neither of us was impressed. He’s used to Pahlmeyer, but this one was too simple to buy again. (710 views) | | | Tasted by brigcampbell on 2/9/2019: A gift from the gang at West of temperance. Pop and pour. Big mistake. I grabbed this to pair with a filet mignon and it was the perfect pairing just in three more years. 30 minutes in the decanter helped. This is a beautiful wine with tremendous structure which needs more cellar time. The color is a deep crystalline garnet. There's a tremendous herbaceous note on the attack with rawhide. Combined with the dark cherry fruit, crushed black pepper and the very prickly tannins. Old world style and class. A tremendous wine. (1036 views) | | | Tasted by EMTAME on 12/31/2018 & rated 86 points: A bit lighter in body and missing some structure that would make it more substantial and, essentially, more interesting. It’s a very easy drinking red at this point. (829 views) | | | Tasted by Mootsie on 10/6/2017 & rated 93 points: Big change from my earlier review. These are ready to go now. Pepper, slight anise with a nice clove mocha finish. Needs an hour decant. (1521 views) | | | Tasted by Mootsie on 5/23/2017 & rated 93 points: Needs a couple years yet, but great old world Merlot. (1283 views) |
| MerlotMerlot is a dark blue–colored wine grape variety, that is used as both a blending grape and for varietal wines. The name Merlot is thought to be a diminutive of merle, the French name for the blackbird, probably a reference to the color of the grape. Its softness and "fleshiness", combined with its earlier ripening, makes Merlot a popular grape for blending with the sterner, later-ripening Cabernet Sauvignon, which tends to be higher in tannin.USAAmerican wine has been produced since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84% of all U.S. wine. The continent of North America is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.California2021 vintage: "Unlike almost all other areas of the state, the Russian River Valley had higher than normal crops in 2021, which has made for a wine of greater generosity and fruit forwardness than some of its stablemates." - Morgan Twain-Peterson Napa Valley Napa Valley Wineries and Wine (Napa Valley Vintners)Yountville Appellation America |
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